Dear All, It seems everyone is now slashing the prices for publication!!! Its all result of the pressure from the OA advocates and Researchers?
Its a welcome sign but as heather rightly said, if $99 is the price for publication of an article? seeing the funding for the research and absolutely no earmarked for payment to publish/processing, how would developing countries and the country like India could afford to publish? Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum<http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/1168> Convenor, Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia> Country Representative, YPARD <http://ypard.net/> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ <http://goo.gl/EQAwr> <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html> On 24 January 2013 23:12, Heather Morrison <hgmor...@sfu.ca> wrote: > Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per > article. The announcement is posted here: > http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm > > This is not the first OA publisher to come out with prices in this range. > PeerJ, established by Peter Binfield (formerly PLoS ONE), has open access > fees on a lifetime membership basis starting from $99. > > This raises some interesting questions. For example: > > What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? > Sage OPEN and PeerJ are both commercial companies. If $99 is sufficient to > cover the costs of coordinating peer review and publication, why would > anyone pay even the $1,350 charged by PLoS ONE, never mind the $3,000 plus > charged by some of the traditional publishers under hybrid arrangements? > > Is this an indication that transitioning to open access will indeed open > up the inelastic market for scholarly journals to competition? > > best, > > Heather G. Morrison, PhD > Freedom for scholarship in the internet age > > http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/2012/12/12/freedom-for-scholarship-in-the-internet-age-post-defence-version/ > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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